RP Elections 2010

No, that’s not a typo in the title. Pic Your President is a Web service that lets you vote for your chosen presidential candidate through a ‘picture poll’. The service is made available via Piclyf, “a picture-based social platform that lets people share photos and do visual updates, check-ins and polls.”

What sets this Web service [...]

Here’s something that’s new — although not exactly unanticipated, considering the state of online-ness of Filipinos today — in the Philippine political arena. Exactly that, PoliticalArena.com. This “socio-political social networking site” aims to be an Internet venue for Filipinos to interact with presidential hopefuls and other candidates of the 2010 elections.
The site, “developed to promote [...]

As everyone is very much aware by now, Barack Obama is now President-elect of the United States. Watching the BBC and CNN today, all the pundits are declaring this landslide victory a historic moment for Americans. Obama being the first African-American president by itself is a sure signal of change in the American political landscape. [...]